Summary

Democrats must reclaim their identity as the party of the working class to regain electoral strength.

Despite pro-labor policies under Biden, working-class voters feel disconnected, seeing Democrats as defenders of a failing system.

The party’s decline traces back to NAFTA and neoliberal economic policies that favored corporations over workers.

A generational effort to prioritize labor rights, fair wages, and economic security while addressing working-class frustrations are needed.

Without serious reform, Democrats will continue losing ground to populist alternatives.

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    8 hours ago

    Nobody is coming to save us. The working class needs to organize to save itself.

    The good news is that if it works, we’ll be in a much better place than where we were a decade ago. It’s going to take a lot of hard work, and we all need to pitch in a little to make it happen. It might not work, but there’s nothing to lose in trying except our chains.

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      3 hours ago

      General Strike. Shut the country down, they’ll get violent. They will use the police and the national guard to attempt to break the strike. But hold firm, because then they’ll beg.

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        They can break up a picket line, but they can’t stop you all going home in response to it. The end result is the strike continues. Or as it’s a general strike just move somewhere else.

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        Which is why I have always contended the first place to strike is against the police, government, and churches.

        Not healthcare CEOs, and business… as long as your local police department, legislature building, and local church are undisturbed nothing will change.

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      Yup. The Democrats as we’ve known them need to die or completely metamorphose. I don’t want my political party to be friends with CEO’s and billionaires, I want my political party to get the American people’s fair share. I want my party to look upon trillion dollar companies and billion dollar families with the same disgust and ire I have. There’s no such thing as a good billionaire, a good person could never take that much.

      Let’s bust some monopolies, let’s tax the fuck outta tycoons. Stop giving billions of government dollars to privately owned and traded companies. Let’s invest in infrastructure projects that make our country better. Who gives a fucking shit about GDP, it doesn’t make my life better.